About vala ========== valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source code.
The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the GObject type system. Vala supports modern language features as the following: Interfaces, Properties, Signals, Foreach, Lambda expressions, Type inference for local variables, Generics, Non-null types, Assisted memory management, Exception handling, Type modules (Plugins) Vala is designed to allow access to existing C libraries, especially GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. All that is needed to use a library with Vala is an API file, containing the class and method declarations in Vala syntax. Vala currently comes with bindings for GLib and GTK+ and many others from the GNOME Platform. Using classes and methods written in Vala from an application written in C is not difficult. The Vala library only has to install the generated header files and C applications may then access the GObject- based API of the Vala library as usual. It should also be easily possible to write a bindings generator for access to Vala libraries from applications written in e.g. C# as the Vala parser is written as a library, so that all compile-time information is available when generating a binding. News ==== * Various improvements and bug fixes: - codegen: Fix floating reference regression with Variants [#661] - build: Correctly quote square brackets in regular expression - codegen: Call ref_sink on Object.new_valist/new_with_properties if needed - vala: Don't bail early on property with not supported default value - manual: Update from wiki.gnome.org * Bindings: - glib-2.0: Add return-type of Queue.remove*(), add HashTable.foreach_steal() - glib-2.0: Add float.parse/try_parse() [#649] - gstreamer: Update from 1.15+ git master - webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.21.91 ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.41/vala-0.41.92.changes (1.14K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.41/vala-0.41.92.tar.xz (3.18M) sha256sum: 95d35d87a707d1abddc3de3655f8ee2d0deedcb9e7dd1100301ec53178ff65f2 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list
